How will the lifting of fuel subsidies affect Jordan’s domestic liquidity and interest rates?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Ziad Fariz, Governor, Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) from The Report: Jordan 2013
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Adel Kasaji, CEO, AB Invest from The Report: Jordan 2013
Articles & Analysis | Top lenders: A pair of banks stand at the forefront from The Report: Jordan 2013
For many years, the Jordanian banking scene has been led by two major lenders – Arab Bank (ARBK) and the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance (HBTF). These two have been consolidating their role in the wider national and regional economy in recent times, which result-ed in 2012 being a more profitable year than 2011. This has been achieved during...
Articles & Analysis | Retail therapy: Opening the market to a wider range of investors could help to stimulate activity from The Report: Jordan 2013
With bond issues equivalent to around one-third of the total market capitalisation of the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), the fixed-income market in Jordan clearly has some weight. Yet with few of these bonds ever traded, many market watchers wonder how this potential could be more fully realised. Opening the mar-ket outwards could be one way, bringing...
Articles & Analysis | Foreign friends: Investment from abroad holds firm from The Report: Jordan 2013
reverses in 2009 and 2010. These, in turn, had followed major gains in the years leading up to the global down-turn, with the net figure standing at just over JD300m ($422m) in 2008. “As a small market, we really bene-fitted from foreign investment funds targeting phos-phates, potash and others,” said Tarek Yaghmour, the vice-president and head of research at Capital Invest-...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Ahmad Abu Eideh, CEO, Standard Chartered from The Report: Jordan 2013
In the current economic climate, could perceived risks be more severe than the reality?